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Golden holocaust : origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Proctor, Robert, 1954-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Tobacco industry > United States > History.
Tobacco use > Health aspects.
Smoking > Psychological aspects.
Tobacco Industry > United States > history.
Government Regulation > United States > history.
History, 20th Century > United States.
Persuasive Communication > United States.
Smoking > adverse effects > United States.
Smoking > psychology > United States.
Tobacco Industry > economics > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE THE TRIUMPH OF THE CIGARETTE
  • 1. The Flue-Curing Revolution
  • 2. Matches and Mechanization
  • 3. War Likes Tobacco, Tobacco Likes War
  • 4. Taxation: The Second Addiction
  • 5. Marketing Genius Unleashed
  • 6. Sponsoring Sports to Sell Smoke
  • 7. Parties, the Arts, and Extreme Expeditions
  • 8. Clouding the Web: Tobacco 2.0
  • pt. TWO DISCOVERING THE CANCER HAZARD
  • 9. Early Experimental Carcinogenesis
  • 10. Roffo's Foray and the Nazi Response
  • 11."Sold American": Tobacco-Friendly Research at the Medical College of Virginia
  • 12.A Most Feared Document: Claude E. Teague's 1953 "Survey of Cancer Research"
  • 13."Silent Collaborators": Clandestine Cancer Research Financed by Tobacco via the Damon Runyon Fund
  • 14. Ecusta's Experiments
  • 15. Consensus, Hubris, and Duplicity
  • pt. THREE CONSPIRACY ON A GRAND SCALE
  • 16. The Council for Tobacco Research: Distraction Research, Decoy Research, Filibuster Research
  • 17. Agnotology in Action
  • 18. Measuring Ignorance: The Impact of Industry Disinformation on Popular Knowledge of Tobacco Hazards
  • 19. Filter Flimflam
  • 20. The Grand Fraud of Ventilation
  • 21. Crack Nicotine: Freebasing to Augment a Cigarette's "Kick"
  • 22. The "Light Cigarette" Scam
  • 23. Penetrating the Universities
  • 24. Historians Join the Conspiracy
  • pt. FOUR RADIANT FILTH AND REDEMPTION
  • 25. What's Actually in Your Cigarette?
  • 26. Radioactivity in Cigarette Smoke: "Three Mile Marlboro" and the Sleeping Giant
  • 27. The Odd Business of Butts
  • and the Global Warming Wild Card
  • 28."Safer" Cigarettes?
  • 29. Globalizing Death
  • 30. What Must Be Done.